· You are only destined to become one person – the person you decide to be.

·  Do good and feel good.  Do bad and feel bad.  It’s that simple.

·  You are what you do today, not what you say you’ll do tomorrow.

·  We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

·  Ultimately, it’s not what you do every once in a while; it’s what you dedicate yourself to on a regular basis that makes the difference.

·  Stay true to yourself.  Never be ashamed of doing what feels right.  Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

·  If you don’t stand for anything, you will remain forever on your knees.

·  No amount of money will make you happy if you aren’t happy with yourself.

·  You know you’ve made the right decision when there is peace in your heart.

·  Don’t worry if your goals seem crazy to other people; oftentimes the crazy ideas are the ones that have the greatest impact.

·  If you’re thinking like everyone else, then you aren’t thinking.  (ReadThinking, Fast and Slow.)

·  Control your own destiny or someone else will try for you.

·  Sometimes standing up to your friends can be just as difficult as standing up to your enemies.

·  The unhappiest people in this world are the people who care the most about what everyone else thinks.

·  When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.

·  There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

·  No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

·  Your greatest task isn’t to find love, but to discover and destroy all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

·  A loving, happy person lives in a loving, happy world.  A hateful, miserable person lives in a hateful, miserable world.  The world around you reflects YOU.

·  Worry gives small things a big shadow.

·  Focus your conscious mind on things you desire not things you fear.  Doing so brings dreams to life.

·  It’s not the mistakes and failures you have to worry about, it’s the opportunities you miss when you don’t even try that hurt the most.

·  It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one over and over again.
·  To get something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done.

·  The harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing.

·  Our problems are really our blessings if we use them to grow stronger. (Read 1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently.)

·  Anyone can run away; it’s super easy.  Facing problems and working through them, that’s what makes you strong.

·  When you have two good options, always go with the one that scares you the most, because that’s the one that’s going to help you grow.

·  Courage is being scared to death, and then taking the next step anyway.

·  Sometimes our greatest insight comes from our failure, not from our accomplishments.

·  You need to screw up to learn.  You need to experience it all to create greatness.

·  Just because you don’t understand something now doesn’t mean the explanation doesn’t exist.

·  Not knowing everything about your future is a good thing.

·  Don’t worry about what you can’t control and you may liberate yourself.

·  People of average ability often achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.  Most people succeed simply because they are determined to.

·  Temporary happiness isn’t worth long-term pain.

·  Patience can be bitter, but the seeds you plant now will bear sweet fruit.

·  The less you expect, the more pleasant life gets.

·  The more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract things to be grateful for.

·  The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for.

·  It usually isn’t what you have or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy.  It’s how you think about it all.

·  Do not dwell so much on creating your perfect life that you forget to live.

·  You are not in competition with anybody except yourself; plan to outdo your past not other people.

·  To admit that you were wrong is to declare that you are wiser now than you were before.

·  Humans see what they want to see.

·  If you spend too much time judging yourself, you won’t have any time to love yourself or anyone else.  (Read The Mastery of Love.)

·  At the end of the day, you can either focus on what’s tearing you apart or what’s holding you together.

·  Look through the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.

·  You don’t get to choose how you are going to die, or when.  But you canchoose how you are going to live, right now.

·  Be done with regrets; they are an excuse for people who have failed.  You still have a chance.